Improved trace-buckle



l@nitrittates @anni @fficef E. F. LACY, OF DANVILLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND S. l).

'IHOMPSON, OF THE SAME PLACE.

LettersvPatent No. 68,756, dated September 10, 1867. Y

IMPROVBD TEAGIBUCKLIE.l

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERNE Be it known that I, E. F. LACY, of Danville, in the county of Vermillion, and State of Illinois, have invented l a new and improved Trace-Fastener or `Buckle; and I do hereby declare that the following is'a. full,rclear, and

exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part oi' this specification.

'lhe present invention relates to a trace-fastener or buckle, and to that class of such buckles as is embraced' and described in the schedule annexed to the Lettersateut granted to A. H. Cole, October 10, A. D. 1865; and the invent-ion consists in a. novel combination and arrangement, with the frame of such buckle,l of :t clasp and spring to the wedge, whereby all possibility of the wedge beeomingseparatcd .from the buckle is entirely obviated, and the working forward ,of the trace-strap, when it is slack, wholly prevented. In the accompanying plate of drawings my improved trace-fastener or buckle is illustrated- Figure l being a plan or top view of thesame, and

.Figure 2 a central longitudinal section of the same takeuin the plane ofthe line :z: x, iig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. V i

A, in the drawings, represents the -frame tothe buckle, which, in its construct-ion, is substantially similar to that embraced in the Letters Patent hereiubel'ore referred to; B, the wedge, having a tongue, C, at one end, and arranged tov move under the cross-bar l) to the frame A. E, a clasp, secured to outer side of wedge '13, passing over the cross-bar D, and thus holding the wedge always thereto.V v'lhis'clasp E is provided with a spiral or coiled spring, F, that is arranged to bear against the said cross-bar D, and thus to preventlthe tracetrace should be then moved from its proper place the spring will serve to vforce the` tongue into the first hole that comes opposite thereto. Y

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters .Patent- Y The clasp, in combination with the wedge, having a tongue, substantially as and for the purposedescribed. I also claim the spring or its equivalent, in oombinationwith the above, substantially as and'for Vthe purpose specified.

. E. F; LACY.

Witnesses ELIAS GOOD, C. J. McGnn.

strap from working forward when slack, as, for insta-nce, on a down grade; as well also ii' by any possibility theV 

